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Legends of the Fall Shortlist

Ten stories have been selected from the hundreds of entries in the Legends of the Fall competition

Sat, Sep 21, 2013, 01:26Updated: Sat, Sep 21, 2013, 01:34

As part of our Legends of the Fall series, readers were invited to submit a piece of original short fiction of between 1,500 and 3,000 words inspired by the events of the last five years in Ireland. Many thanks to the hundreds of readers who submitted such excellent entries. We now have a shortlist of ten stories:

Bogged Down by Ciara DuffinStaring At the Sea by John-Philip O’ConnorSurfacing by Mary Róisín McGillInto the Red by John O’DonnellSpeaking Without Words by Stephen FitzpatrickAll the Dead Birds by Danielle McLaughlinVicious Circular by Kieran MarshSamurai by Robert HopkinsGarlic Fingers by EM ReapyThe Sweet Forebearance in the Streets by Mary O’Donoghue.

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